Chris Mann

Education

Mann studied Chinese and linguistics at the University of Melbourne, and his interest in language, systems, and philosophy is evident in his work.

Career

He is currently based in New York City. Mann founded the New Music Centre in 1972 and taught at the State College of Victoria in the mid-1970s. He then left teaching to work on research projects involving cultural ideas of information theory and has been recognized by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for his work in that field

He has performed text in collaboration with artists such as Thomas Buckner, David Dunn, Annea Lockwood, Larry Polansky, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Mann has recorded with the ensemble Machine Foreign Making Sense with Amanda Stewart and others, Chris Mann and the Impediments (with two backup singers and Mann reading a text simultaneously while only being able to hear one another), and Chris Mann and The Use. His piece The Plato Songs, a collaboration with Holland Hopson and R. Luke DuBois, features realtime spectral analysis and parsing of the voice into multiple channels based on phonemes.

Mann has also participated in the 60x60 project Mann currently teaches in the Media Studies Graduate program at The New School.

Artist Chris Mann to vocalize his new work to Saint Cloud by Tim Post, Minnesota Public Radio 1 April 2005.

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